What you Never Knew about your Fitness Club

There's a hilarious bit in the hit sitcom Friends where Chandler, one of the characters, decides that he is going to quit his job because he's fed up of having $50 going out of this account every month when he just doesn't use his membership. Of course, quitting fitness club isn't easy, as he finds out.

It's the dirty little secret of the fitness club industry. If they didn't have lots of members that they actually didn't expect to never show up, they wouldn't be profitable. Only one out of two new members who join for a New Year's resolution in January actually stay on till April, for instance. The gyms depend on them. When a gym member gets fed up of paying his dues for no reason and actually tries to quit, they make it as difficult as possible (or, as happened with Chandler in the sitcom, they send a fitness goddess into to the gym quitter processing).

Not only  do gyms make a lot of money on members who don't come, they make a lot on extra-spending as well - personal training, the health food and juice bars and so on.

While they may call a fitness club a health club, you have to realize that these are not the healthiest places around. The main reason for this is that it's a place where people come in with very few clothes on, and they let their sweat contaminate just about any surface. What's worse, the towels they give you at the gym are usually not washed properly.

In other words, gyms happen to be hotbeds of infectious diseases. If you're planning to use one, you'd better go there really with full sleeved clothes to wear at all times, your own towels to use their, a disinfectant spray bottle to spray surfaces clean before you get into contact with them, and so on.

Your fitness club isn't really healthy if how they place stress inducing machines in the hands of out-of-shape people, and still refuse to do something about the possibility that people have heart attacks. It doesn't require that much of a stretch of the imagination.

You put out-of-shape people in charge of heavy-duty exercise equipment, and they could overexert themselves. If fitness clubs and personnel who knew CPR road had defibrillators on and, it would be a lot of sense. Every minute that treatment is delayed after a heart attack , your chances of survival top 10%.

A big reason why people are willing to join a fitness club is that they feel that they can really benefit from having  experienced trainers going to them. Well, it may be quite a surprise to you to hear this, but even if they have great physiques, they aren't usually able to tell you how you need to exercise yourself. The thing is, trainers don't need to come in with qualifications or credentials

So if you're looking for a trainer who’s actually trained himself and earned a few qualifications, look for someone who's been approved of by the American Council On Exercise, The National Strength And Conditioning Association And The American College Of Sports Medicine as well.

Why I Exercise To Lose Weight

It has almost always been a bit of a chore for me to keep my weight down. I was an athlete in school, during which time I ate whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted, because I knew that I was going to burn everything off. After I graduated however, I kept the same eating habits but was not working out as much, and really started to put on the pounds. While I have tried to eat a balanced diet, I really struggle in that respect, and I have found that it is easier for me to exercise to lose weight than anything else.

One of the biggest problems I have when it comes to weight loss is that I just can't seem to curb my appetite. I have tried all kinds of things, and nothing seems to work. I decided a long time ago that if I was going to be successful with my weight loss goals, I was going to have to exercise to lose weight, and I did just that. I made it a point to get onto the elliptical every day at lunch and work out for 45 minutes on that until I could hardly move. It was exhausting at first, but I definitely started to see the results.

Within about two weeks I had dropped five pounds. This may not sound like a tremendous amount of weight, but when one considers the fact that I had not changed anything at all about my diet, it is more impressive. When I decided to exercise to lose weight, I knew that I could not just gorge myself and expect to do well at all. I made it a point to eat until I was full and then push back the plate. I also made it a point to cut out sodas entirely and started having juices, punch and water in their stead.

When I told my doctor that I had decided to exercise to lose weight, he was impressed. When I explained that I was not dieting at all, he did not care for that approach as much, but said the important thing was that the weight was coming off. He also pointed out that exercise has so many benefits beyond losing weight that it was really good for my body to be exercising every day. He told me to focus more on aerobic activities than weight training, as aerobics are really where you burn calories.

I am not sure if anyone else has really a tried to exercise to lose weight without changing up their diets at all, but it has certainly worked for me. Maybe at some point I will be able to get my eating habits under control, but for right now, this is working fine.